Privacy policy

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Introduction (general information, scope)

Thank you for visiting the website of the city of Erfurt / Municipal Council of Erfurt (the provider). The use of our website is generally possible without the requirement to provide personal information. For individual e-government offers on these pages please note the specific details regarding privacy published there.

Collection, processing and objection possibility of accessing data

Server log files

Name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, data volume transferred, report on successful access, type of web browser and version, operating system of the user, referrer URL (previously visited page), IP address and provider used. The provider uses the protocol data only for statistical evaluation for the purpose of its operation, security and in order to improve the content. The provider reserves the right, however, to analyse server log files of users retroactively when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting an illegal usage based on concrete evidence. The server log files are deleted after 90 days.

To analyse and for optimisation reasons the town of Erfurt employs the web analysis service "Piwik" (http://piwik.org/). With every access to our web page an anonymous recording and storage of the following information will initialised:

Anonymized IP address: to anonymize the IP address will be truncated after the first half.

Time of server access

Title of the displayed web page

URL of the displayed web page

URL Title of the previously displayed website (Referrer)

Screen Resolution

Downloaded data

Clicked outbound links

Page speed

User-Agent Header

Accept-Language Header

Country of origin

Cookies

In some areas of our Internet-Offer Cookies will be employed, to provide an easier navigation for visitors to our web page. Cookies are small text data, that are loaded to your computer and stored in your browser. Most Cookies used by the town of Erfurt will be deleted from your hard disc after finishing your browser session (so called session Cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognise you on your next visit (so called permanent Cookies). The storage can be at any time objected for future visits by blocking the installation of Cookies with the according adjustment of your browser-software. We would like to make clear that this might lead to malfunctions of our offers.

Right of objection

Furthermore you can object to the use of your data by "Piwik" for web analysis reasons.

Handling of personal data

Insofar as data relating to individuals is collected on our website (e.g. "Recommend this page", name or email address), this will as far as possible always be on a voluntary basis. This data is not stored.

Updating of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is updated when the provider introduces new products or services, changes Internet procedures or when any changes in Internet or security technologies occur. Any such changes will be published here.